French painting at the time of the impressionistsIMPRESSIONISTS THE IMPRESSIONISTS by Raymond Cooniat. This is a new, and more elaborate, edition of a Hyperion Press book

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PREFATORY NOTE PROFESSOR MEYER SCHAPIRO ( 1904- 1996) first wrote on Impressionism in 1928 in an essay entitled "Modern Art" published in An Introduction to Contemporary

Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro, Claude Monet, Sisley, Renoir, Berthe Moriset, Cézanne, Guillaumin. Translated by J.E. Crawford FlitchMANET AND THE CEZANNE

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Title:READINGS: IMPRESSIONISM Background: Eugen Weber, Impressionism Zola, The Realists of the Salon of 1866 Blemont, The Impressionists Zola, Naturalism in the Salon Background:

1 Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919), Dance at Bougival, 1883, oil on canvas, 71 5/8 x 38 5/8 inches, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Picture Fund; photo: © 2012 Museum

Harn Museum of ArtClaude Monet, 1899 Photo by Nadar “Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply

Color in the Age of Impressionism Commerce, Technology, and Art Laura Anne Kalba Introduction If there is one thing we all know about the Impressionists, it is generally